Example sentences of "[adv] often [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards he wondered whether he visited parishes less often than his predecessor and took the trouble to work it out . |
| 2 | The misleadingly alarming appearance of our conclusions results from the fact that they show that where conformity is called for it is based only some of the time , and less often than is often imagined , on the legitimate authority of the government , and often on other considerations . |
| 3 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 4 | Perhaps because such a high proportion of bank or other loans are devoted to car-buying , they turned up less often than other types of credit as a means of financing things bought from shops — much less often in the case of shop chains . |
| 5 | In attracting the fashionable trade the industry was gaining friends who were socially and politically powerful and it was also nicely building up box-office takings for , whilst the better sort of customers attended less often than the workers , they paid considerably more when they did come . |
| 6 | This was usually the advance of a political cause or party , and , less often than before 1945 , the pursuit of their own public or political career . |
| 7 | It may be somewhat longer ( much less often than men claim or fantasise ) or , especially in some physical disorders , somewhat shorter . |
| 8 | Moreover , said Clive , twice a week was less often than was normal and other men boasted of far more frequency in sex with their wives . |
| 9 | I hope it 'll crash less often than the index . |
| 10 | Drums much less often than Great Spotted . |
| 11 | Local education authorities query this pattern of study less often than they used to as principles of credit accumulation percolate through to town halls . |
| 12 | Its frequency is usually fixed , though problems may arise more or less often than review cycles . |
| 13 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 14 | It seems she saw her father five or six times a year and her grandfather less often than that , though the old man used to send her substantial cash presents at Christmas and on her birthday . ’ |
| 15 | Women who had had a hysterectomy tended to defecate less often than the uterus intact controls . |
| 16 | Such conditions as coronary artery disease , gallstones , appendicitis , diverticulosis , constipation and other digestive troubles , as well as varicose veins and obesity , occur less often when large amounts of fibre are consumed in the diet . |
| 17 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 18 | That 's why it 's important to have time off every so often so we can get away from each other for a short while . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It does n't matter , Julia , ’ said Anthony with a return of the impatience he had shown so often before she got ill . |
| 20 | A further summons assembled another army , which this time was joined by the king , but when they all met " it came to nothing as so often before " , and Æthelred returned to London on hearing that some intended to betray him . |
| 21 | ‘ I wondered so often whether it was my fault that Isabelle went . |
| 22 | But , as so often when a design idea takes over a production , an awful lot gets missed . |
| 23 | Here , as so often when one penetrates to particulars , the rigid historiographical divisions ( War Communism , NEP , the Five-Year Plan years ) crumble . |
| 24 | As so often when something good is being restored to the church , its arrival is not without controversy . |
| 25 | As so often when Dohnányi is perfectly convincing in isolation , something is missed . |
| 26 | As so often when we contemplate English village society much depended upon particular local conditions . |
| 27 | As so often when in the company of women , Matthew felt a little superfluous . |
| 28 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 29 | Patrick knew that he only intended to lag the putt up close , but as so often when a player does that the ball ran exactly along the line he had chosen , curved left as it ended its run and plopped neatly into the hole . |
| 30 | I knew why Hutton called in Doreen so often when he could perfectly well have given her memos . |